Iron County register., 1887-12-22
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
-Cigar dealer-.I have something
new in cigarettes want to show you,
Mr.. Dumley." Dumley-"What is it,
tobacco. ~ T Sun.
Landlord going to raise the rent,
is hep '.Well. TIM glad to hear it
1t makes me hustle every month to
raise the rent"
-'Tm not going to write any more
tragedy" said an author. I'm going
to stick to comedy" '.Whv is thatp"
Then it won't hurt my feelings when
people laugh at the show" Washing
ton Critic.
And you really love me, Georgep"
she asked. ''Love you'll" repeated
George. fervently. "Why. while I was
bidding you goodbye on the porch last
night dear, tho dog bit large chunk
out of my leg, and never noticed it
until I got home. Love you'll" "-Har-
per's Bazar.
did you ever hear me sing my
new solo, Emily. Under the Silent
Stars?' y mo. I never have. Is it
sentimental?' '.Pathetically so. "
Please sing it. have the neuralgia
so bad that any thing will be welcome
as relief "-Lincoln Journal.
Mrs. Whitegoods (wearily) - 81
must see physician, dear; I have
such bad spells every day." Old White
goods Gmpatiently)-''Bah, SO has
the typewriter girl at the Office and
she's bright as a cricket all the time
Livelier she is the worse spells she
has. "-Burdette.
Daughter (watching the seagulls)
do the seagulls accompany us all
the way across. mammal" Mother
Il know of two of them that do, my
dear-your father and your uncle
James. They are down below now
playing poker with strangers. IN
Y San.
"A new storm signal has recently
been adopted by our Government
weather service. 1t consists of a yell
low flag with white center, which
will be displayed when tho coming
gale is not expected to be too severe
for seaworthy vessels to encounter
with safety. The familiar red flag
with black center will continue in
use to denote the coming of storms Of
a more serious character. m Y
Ledger.
In excavating for an addition to a
prison in Salt Lake City recently five
underground cells were found, each
two and half feet wide. six feet long
and three feet high. and with walls two
feet thick. covered with hard plaster
cement The doors were gone. but
parts of the hinges remained. There
are believed to be many more of tho
cells at the same place. They are sup
posed to have been reached, when in
use, by subterranean paths. Whether
their doors were grated or solid is not
known.
Commenting upon a recent sug-
gestion of an electric lamp for farm
ers, the Electrician states this matter
has received attention in Southern
Russia, where the Stepanof primary
battery is to some extent employed
during the threshing season. The
only chance the Russian wheat
grower has to dispose of his crop on
favorable terms is to get it on tho
market at the earliest possible
moment. before the American and In
dian freights arrive. Threshing. therQ
fore, is often carried on night and
day.
About four tho usand of the poor
of New York are buried annually in
the Potter's Field in forty-cent collins.
and the supply goes on increasing.
Said Rev. N. B. Thompson, Baptist
clergyman of that city. in sermon
last Sunday: .'One of the smartes
and shrewdest lawyers of this city
sleeps there tonight. There lie the
remains of most magnetic club man.
stalwart sailor, a talented pulpit
orator, once rich merchant a
former society bell. These are but
representatives of the victims who
have fallen before the scythe Of adj
versity. :"
All Arabian horses are of mid
ding siza very easy in their PAGES,
and rather thin than fat. They are
cleaned every morning and evening
re gularly with so much care that not
the smallest spot is left on their skin,
and their legs. name and tail are
washed. The latter is allowed to grow
long. and is seldom combed. to avoid
breaking the hairs They have
nothing given them to eat all day. and
seldom are allowed to drink more
than two or three times a day. At
sunset a bag is fastened around their
heads. containing about half a bushel
of very clean barley, which is not
taken from them until the next MORN
ing. when all is eaten up.
The Napa Reporter says: "A
company or an agent gets a piece of
poor land and pays probably S. an
acre for it. The land may be a lot of
rocky hills or it may be a sandy waste
or marsh land. 1t is cut up into lots
Is by 100 feet and the place is named.
It is called town, but there is no
town there. When divided there are
probably twenty lots to the acre.
The company then has q large number
of short, blank deeds printed, and
when a lot is given away the deed is
filed out and $3 charged for it. If there
are twenty lots to the. acre the land
brings $50 per acre, minus the cost Of
twenty deeds. which is probably 30
cents. Buying land at &5 per acre and
giving it away at $50 Is profitable.